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tkpenalty · Apr 27, 2008, 01:15 AM

I would say its the fact that DX10.1 has global lighting enabled; this makes the game coding more streamlined (as in they don't have to manually program each object to be affected by a lighting source-afaik it would probably put an increased load on the GPU itself).

Apr 27, 2008, 01:15 AM	#14
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